Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. This presidency, we will ask a celebrated historian if there is anything to celebrate in the history that we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 561 of the Trump Administration and the end of another week brings a new sign of Robert Muellers increasing interest in one of Donald Trumps veteran advisers. His friend of 40 years, roger stone. Nbc news reports that according to a source with direct knowledge, a member of muellers stone met with a stone associate named kristin davis. She first came to prominence when the tab lights nicknamed her the manhattan madam after she said she provided prostitutes to the rich and powerful including a governor of new york. Davis said in july that the mueller representative who
contacted her lawyer asked if she would accept a subpoena or if the fbi needed to serb it to her. She sai
A recap of the days news. The idea that somehow this is floating out in the ether somewhere in orbit far away from the central focus of this investigation is just not true. Those lines of investigation are open. And this is a man who has shown himself willing to do some fairly dodgy work for people supported by the kremlin abroad in the ukraine. And thats one reason why hes standing in court today. And this is just the beginning and again, one of two trials. The first of two trials for Paul Manafort this summer. So this is and the first one as far as the russia investigation. Listen, theres they have to go a long way, as you said. Theres a long way to go, and april, the judges name is ts ellis. He banned any mention of President Trump, russia or collusion from the courtroom. I mean, that may be, but the trial is no doubt weighing on this white house. It is definitely weighing on this white house, don. From my sources, theyre saying
the white house is very concerned. They are trying to
She joins us now. What did these emails between butina and gordon reveal . Yeah, they showed that the two met at an embassy event, a party at the Swiss Embassy in late september 2016. So really in the final weeks of the Trump Campaign. And then paul erickson, the republican operative who she was apparently dating kind of connected the two of them over email, and they show that the fact that j. D. Gordon had this trump tie appeared to be important to the email relationship that they then struck up. Paul erickson referred to the fact that he was an important person likely in a trump transition, and then j. D. Gordon himself sent back to ms. Butina at some point a copy of a story from politico noting that he had a role in the trump transition. And there was an invitation from gordon to her to attend a concert as well as his Birthday Party in the fall of 2016 . Yeah, thats right. They have a series of emails. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and inv
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Posing as a romanian hacker. It is a good rule of thumb. It is a good rule of them, and you know, i think, you know, one way or another, they are looking at something serious about roger stone and that seems to be coming to a head. So they are using this collaterally to attack the investigation itself. You know, stone has said that he knows he is going it be or he thinks he is going to be indicted and he is preparing for it. He has had a falling out with nunberg, how do you think he is preparing himself for this . Well, he certainly doesnt seem worried but that is kind of within his m. O. But i mean, they are certainly closing in on him even with Kristin Davis testifying to the grand jury shortly after she was interviewed by mueller, i think, you know, clear indication that
they are looking to bring charges against him and similar to manafort, might be unrelated to russian hacking or collusion. And it cullould be something ins past and that is w
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Sam nunbergs public meltdown after receiving a subpoena in march. He was implicit. He did not want to incriminate his mentor. Roger stone is like my father. I am not going to go in there for them to set up a case against roger. After all that nunberg did testify with the grand jury. Ultimately, mueller wants to indict roger. I think this indictment, he is going to have a sexy charge, conspiracy to defraud. My opinion as i said to you, roger conspired against himself and not the russians. Muellers team has continued to subpoena witnesses linked to stone. Kristin davis appeared before
the grand jury just this afternoon. Stone associate randy. Stone is the vivid mentioned. Quote on or about august 15 the conspirators posing as guccifer 2. 0. There is other evidence that stone could have colluded with agents including his own claim of having been in touch with wikileaks. In regard to the october surprise, what is your point on that. And every reason